Cholo, Frida Kahlo’s Fan

As I was saying Cholo was a very especial dog, and developed some artistic knowledge and taste concerning Mexican painters like Tamayo, Juan Alcázar or our neighbors in the Barrio de la Conchita in Coyoacán, Rina Lazo and Arturo García Bustos, but his very favorite painter was Frida Kahlo.
Very often we would walk from La Conchita to El Carmen where the Casa Azul, former Frida Kahlo’s and Diego Rivera’s home, on London Street. He would wait for me very patiently outside the Museum, once I got out he would listen with much interest everything about Frida and needed very few seconds to look at the painter’s works, whether in books or postcards, he liked them so much very often he would try to lick them up, but soon enough learned not to do it.
Noticing how hard it was for him to learn and appreciate the arts as a treat I would take him to the Jardin Frida Kahlo, on the corner of Pacífico and Fernandez Leal, back in our Barrio de la Conhita.

Cholo was, indeed, an artist.